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Weather Vane (1956-10-12) Vol. 1 No. 2

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th WEATHER YANE
VOLUME I HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 12, 1956 NUMBER 2
Fall Revival Begins Soon
Norman Derstine, Director of Spe-<
cial Bible Term at E.M.C., will be
evangelist at our annual fall revival
meetings. This week, October 21 to
28, will be set apart as a special op­portunity
for the school community
to draw closer to God.
Bro. Derstine, formerly from Doy-lestown,
Pennsylvania, is now the
program director of The Mennonite
Hour. Previous to this assignment,
he served on our faculty as a Bible
teacher. Before giving his full time
to The Mennonite Hour, he was pas-j
tor at the Trissle’s Church north of j
Harrisonburg. During the past year J
he has traveled extensively in the in- j
terests of the Virginia Mission Board.
He has visited Italy and many parts
of Africa. The meetings will be con­ducted
twice each day, during the
chapel period and at 7:00 p.m. They
will be broadcast over WEMC.
Please pray definitely that God may
touch our hearts during these meet­ings.
Revival depends upon our re­sponse
to God’s love.
Evangelist Derstine
Touring Chorus
Plans Announced
The birth of three touring chorus­es
on the campus has been the cause
o f considerable excitement. These
choruses will each take a ten-day tour
over Easter vacation, from April 12-
21. There will be no week-end tour
in May this year.
Men’s Chorus, under the direction
of Bro. Earl Maust, will be touring
Ohio and Michigan. Southern Virgin­ia,
Eastern Maryland, and Delawarej
are the areas where Miss Audrey
Shank an her Ladies’ Chorus will
(Continued to page 3)
General Conference
To Be Here
The August, 1957, session of the
General Conference of the Mennonite
church will convene on the campus of
E.M.C., according to a release from
the General Council of General Con­ference.
These plans were approved by the
General Council last month at a meet­ing
at Laurelville, Pennsylvania. This
approval was the response to an in­vitation
given by the Virginia Con­ference
last July. The chairman of
the conference is Bro. Truman H.
Brunk of Denbigh, Virginia.
General Conference is the over-all
organization of the M e n n o n i t e
Church. It consists of 15 district con­ferences
in the United States, Cana­da,
and Puerto Rico. Its work is to
aid in the organization and repre­sentation
of the church. Last year
the conference was held at Hesston,
Kansas.
Mennonite Board of Education,
Educational Council To Meet Here
Special Bible Meet
The faculty has approved plans
for the six-week Special Bible Term
at E.M.C. in January and February.
Because of the crowded conditions of
the college, many thought that it
would be impossible. However, the ad­ministration
is looking to the com­munity
for housing accommodations.
The president tells us “ applications
are already arriving.”
Gymnasium-Student Center
There has been no recent develop­ment
in the progress of the Gymnas-ium-
Student Center. Steel for the con­struction
is expected to arrive in
March. It is thought that the steel
strike will not delay the work. Sam­uel
Strong is continuing the solici­tation
work among the constituency.
Funds available at the present time
total $119,000.
F O R E C A S T
17— Class Meetings
18— Home Economics Club,
Scriblerus, Premedical, Na­ture
Societies
18-20— High School Washing­ton
Trip
19-20— Christian Day School
Institute, General Educa­tional
Council Program
21-28— Fall Revival Meetings
The Mennonite Board of Education
will convene at the Lindale Mennon­ite
Church on Thursday, October 18,
for their 55th annual meeting. There
will be sessions at 8:00 a.m. and 1:00
p.m. The final session of the Board
Meeting will be held on the E.M.C.
campus at 7:00 p.m. This will be a
joint session of the Board, the Gen­eral
Educational Council, and the
area councils. They will consider the
progress report of the Study Commis­sion
on Mennonite Higher Education.
The General Educational Council,
in its ninth annual meeting, will as­semble
on the E.M.C. campus on Fri­day
and Saturday, October 19 and 20
in conjunction with the tenth annual
E. M. C. Christian Day School Insti­tute.
This combined program features
topics on all levels: elementary, sec­ondary,
collegiate, seminary, nursing
education, and winter Bible schools.
In addition to platform lectures
there will be workshop groups, panel
discussions, demonstrations, and oth­er
special features.
The closing feature of the Confer­ence
will be a Teachers’ Fellowship
in “ Oakwood” at 7:00 o’clock on Sat­urday
evening.
In order that high school teachers
may attend the Institute session, no
high school classes will meet on Fri­day,
the 19th. Educational students
will also be given the opportunity to
attend all sessions of the General
Educational Council Program and
C.D.S. Institute.
Y.P.C.A. Gives
Year's Goals
Witnessing effectively for Christ
through our Y.P.C.A. program was
the central theme of chapel address-^
es during the week beginning Sep­tember
24. Paul Peachy introduced
the series by pointing out that for ef­ficient
city evangelism we need to
share the everyday struggles of those
whom we would win.
Our student pastor, Myron Augs-burger,
reminded us that our pri­mary
witness consists of living a dy­namic
life for Christ in our routine
experiences.
In institutional work we need to be
conscious that only by pointing men
to Christ can we help them solve
their problems, Bro. Ira Miller em­phasized.
Bro. Daniel Suter stressed that in
rural witnessing our testimony can
be effective only to the degree that we
become genuine friends of the peo­ple.
Our Friday morning “kick off” pro­gram
consisted of introductions of
various “ Y ” leaders and a look at
some of our goals for the year. Suc­cess
will depend on the sincerity and
dependence on God of each Y.P.C.A.
member.
New Literary Society
Formed; Smiths’, Z’s Rally
E. M. C. has officially recognized the birth of a Third Literary
Society. The decision was reached after the expression of deep
feelings on hoth sides of the issue. A play-by-play description fol­lows:
“ Status quo or third society?” That Many interested students, faculty
was the question! A fter several days members, and friends came with feel-of
“ bull sessions,” “ hen parties,” and ings of wonder and concern, await-other
unnamed group discussions of | ing the final outcome of the issue at
the big issue, a final assembly was (stake,
called in the auditorium to hear a
panel discussion.
Hay Ride And
Programs Spice
Friday Night
Henry Weaver, Jr., master of cere­monies,
opened the meeting by call­ing
on J. Otis Yoder to lead in the in­vocation.
A rousing men’s quartet
sang “ Stars of the Summer Night.”
The panel discussing this all-im­portant
question was introduced by
George Brenneman. They were: Will­ard
Swartley, Ray Miller, David Gar
ber, Ernest Kraybill, and Donald
Mellinger.
These men were given twenty min­utes
for discussion, then the issue
was discussed from the floor. Many
thoughts went through our minds as
High School
Societies Convene
“ This is Your Life” was the Ar-merians’
program of Friday, Sept.
28.
Whose life? Why, Mr. Jay B. Lan­dis,
our sponsor, of course. And what
a life! We were shown pictures of
Jay, enlarged by the projector, when
he was a cute litttle guy with long
curls and from there on up to his
first date at E.M.C.
It seems Jay has always been in­terested
in music and poetry. One of
his most uplifting poems was “ En­tertaining
My Big Sister’s Beau.”
Marvin Showalter recited this for us.
One of his most inspirational songs
was “ A Froggie Would A-Wooing
Go.” Marian Longenecker and Rach­el
Wenger gave us their version of
: it.
Then we saw Jay (alias Irvin
! Heishman) in his college life here at
| E.M.C. and his work in I-W Service
j at Cleveland, Ohio. Jay appeared in
| person as a fitting climax to the pro­gram.
* * * *
High spirits rolled the Philomath-
' ean “ Wagon Wheels West.” We all
felt like cowhands when Nelson Good
and Gene Stoltzfus sang “ Red River
Valley” and “ Home on the Range”
I with Arley Miller strumming the har­mony
on the guitar.
Lowell Herr took us to the west
coast by way of his interesting slides.
| The Smith’s, having deposited their
’ dimes with the proper person, found
a spot on the hay wagon and took
. the long way to the big barn for their
1 Friday night social. “ Our faces
toward the future, Smithsonians w e ,
sing,” broke into the clear air, and j George gave actual facts of the his-
“ Why doesn’t my goose lay as much tory of E.M.C.’s literaries and the
as thy goose?” competed with the others gave pactical suggestions con-jeeps
for audibility. | cerning the pros and cons of a third
At the barn, spectators watched society in relation to our present
girls scramble madly for that one needs. The discussion was lively, but
special, “ he-man” shoe, laughed over pointed.
Harvey’s attempts to pick up cotton A fter the discussion from the au-
(Continued to page 3) ' (Continued to page 3)
College Senior Class Officers
L to R Dale Schumm, George Brenneman, Titus Bender, M a rth a Hertzler, Eunice Kauffm an
Senior Class Elects Officers
The seniors did it again— and for|
the last time! That is, they elected
class officers.
Here are the results: president—
Titus Bender, vice president— George
Brenneman, secretary — Martha
Hertzler, treasurer — Eunice Kauff­man,
and business manager— Dale
Schumm.
President Bender is by no means
an amateur at this job. He capably
chaired the class of ’57 through a
! successful junior year. Titus is from
Delaware but has spent most of his
| time during the last three years in j
Virginia. “ Tidy,” the senior class’s
number one enthusiast, has the know
how to make any party, any night-out,
or any sport top-notch.
President Bender is also a good
musician. Here at E.M.C. he’s been
a member of both the men’s and mix­ed
touring choruses and last year was
assistant director of Collegiate. At
L.M.S. he wrote both the words and
music to the class song.
Then too, “ Tidy” is quite socially
inclined. It’s really not too evident
unless you see him waiting impatient­ly
by the mail boxes or later reading
a six page letter in class.
Congratulations, President Bender.
H IG H S C H O O L S E N IO R S E L E C T
The high school senior class also
elected officers. Their president is
Jim Wenger, vice president— Mervin
Bontrager, secretary— Rachel Weng­er,
treasurer— Janet Yoder, and busi­ness
manager— Ronald Collins.
Best wishes to you, seniors, for a
good year!
C O L L E G E J U N IO R C L A S S O F F IC E R S
President .................. Ernest Kraybil!
Vice President ..... Donald Mallinger
Secretary ................ Naomi Hackman
Treasurer ................ Geneva Emswiler
Business Manager ....... Lowell Herr

th WEATHER YANE
VOLUME I HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 12, 1956 NUMBER 2
Fall Revival Begins Soon
Norman Derstine, Director of Spe-<
cial Bible Term at E.M.C., will be
evangelist at our annual fall revival
meetings. This week, October 21 to
28, will be set apart as a special op­portunity
for the school community
to draw closer to God.
Bro. Derstine, formerly from Doy-lestown,
Pennsylvania, is now the
program director of The Mennonite
Hour. Previous to this assignment,
he served on our faculty as a Bible
teacher. Before giving his full time
to The Mennonite Hour, he was pas-j
tor at the Trissle’s Church north of j
Harrisonburg. During the past year J
he has traveled extensively in the in- j
terests of the Virginia Mission Board.
He has visited Italy and many parts
of Africa. The meetings will be con­ducted
twice each day, during the
chapel period and at 7:00 p.m. They
will be broadcast over WEMC.
Please pray definitely that God may
touch our hearts during these meet­ings.
Revival depends upon our re­sponse
to God’s love.
Evangelist Derstine
Touring Chorus
Plans Announced
The birth of three touring chorus­es
on the campus has been the cause
o f considerable excitement. These
choruses will each take a ten-day tour
over Easter vacation, from April 12-
21. There will be no week-end tour
in May this year.
Men’s Chorus, under the direction
of Bro. Earl Maust, will be touring
Ohio and Michigan. Southern Virgin­ia,
Eastern Maryland, and Delawarej
are the areas where Miss Audrey
Shank an her Ladies’ Chorus will
(Continued to page 3)
General Conference
To Be Here
The August, 1957, session of the
General Conference of the Mennonite
church will convene on the campus of
E.M.C., according to a release from
the General Council of General Con­ference.
These plans were approved by the
General Council last month at a meet­ing
at Laurelville, Pennsylvania. This
approval was the response to an in­vitation
given by the Virginia Con­ference
last July. The chairman of
the conference is Bro. Truman H.
Brunk of Denbigh, Virginia.
General Conference is the over-all
organization of the M e n n o n i t e
Church. It consists of 15 district con­ferences
in the United States, Cana­da,
and Puerto Rico. Its work is to
aid in the organization and repre­sentation
of the church. Last year
the conference was held at Hesston,
Kansas.
Mennonite Board of Education,
Educational Council To Meet Here
Special Bible Meet
The faculty has approved plans
for the six-week Special Bible Term
at E.M.C. in January and February.
Because of the crowded conditions of
the college, many thought that it
would be impossible. However, the ad­ministration
is looking to the com­munity
for housing accommodations.
The president tells us “ applications
are already arriving.”
Gymnasium-Student Center
There has been no recent develop­ment
in the progress of the Gymnas-ium-
Student Center. Steel for the con­struction
is expected to arrive in
March. It is thought that the steel
strike will not delay the work. Sam­uel
Strong is continuing the solici­tation
work among the constituency.
Funds available at the present time
total $119,000.
F O R E C A S T
17— Class Meetings
18— Home Economics Club,
Scriblerus, Premedical, Na­ture
Societies
18-20— High School Washing­ton
Trip
19-20— Christian Day School
Institute, General Educa­tional
Council Program
21-28— Fall Revival Meetings
The Mennonite Board of Education
will convene at the Lindale Mennon­ite
Church on Thursday, October 18,
for their 55th annual meeting. There
will be sessions at 8:00 a.m. and 1:00
p.m. The final session of the Board
Meeting will be held on the E.M.C.
campus at 7:00 p.m. This will be a
joint session of the Board, the Gen­eral
Educational Council, and the
area councils. They will consider the
progress report of the Study Commis­sion
on Mennonite Higher Education.
The General Educational Council,
in its ninth annual meeting, will as­semble
on the E.M.C. campus on Fri­day
and Saturday, October 19 and 20
in conjunction with the tenth annual
E. M. C. Christian Day School Insti­tute.
This combined program features
topics on all levels: elementary, sec­ondary,
collegiate, seminary, nursing
education, and winter Bible schools.
In addition to platform lectures
there will be workshop groups, panel
discussions, demonstrations, and oth­er
special features.
The closing feature of the Confer­ence
will be a Teachers’ Fellowship
in “ Oakwood” at 7:00 o’clock on Sat­urday
evening.
In order that high school teachers
may attend the Institute session, no
high school classes will meet on Fri­day,
the 19th. Educational students
will also be given the opportunity to
attend all sessions of the General
Educational Council Program and
C.D.S. Institute.
Y.P.C.A. Gives
Year's Goals
Witnessing effectively for Christ
through our Y.P.C.A. program was
the central theme of chapel address-^
es during the week beginning Sep­tember
24. Paul Peachy introduced
the series by pointing out that for ef­ficient
city evangelism we need to
share the everyday struggles of those
whom we would win.
Our student pastor, Myron Augs-burger,
reminded us that our pri­mary
witness consists of living a dy­namic
life for Christ in our routine
experiences.
In institutional work we need to be
conscious that only by pointing men
to Christ can we help them solve
their problems, Bro. Ira Miller em­phasized.
Bro. Daniel Suter stressed that in
rural witnessing our testimony can
be effective only to the degree that we
become genuine friends of the peo­ple.
Our Friday morning “kick off” pro­gram
consisted of introductions of
various “ Y ” leaders and a look at
some of our goals for the year. Suc­cess
will depend on the sincerity and
dependence on God of each Y.P.C.A.
member.
New Literary Society
Formed; Smiths’, Z’s Rally
E. M. C. has officially recognized the birth of a Third Literary
Society. The decision was reached after the expression of deep
feelings on hoth sides of the issue. A play-by-play description fol­lows:
“ Status quo or third society?” That Many interested students, faculty
was the question! A fter several days members, and friends came with feel-of
“ bull sessions,” “ hen parties,” and ings of wonder and concern, await-other
unnamed group discussions of | ing the final outcome of the issue at
the big issue, a final assembly was (stake,
called in the auditorium to hear a
panel discussion.
Hay Ride And
Programs Spice
Friday Night
Henry Weaver, Jr., master of cere­monies,
opened the meeting by call­ing
on J. Otis Yoder to lead in the in­vocation.
A rousing men’s quartet
sang “ Stars of the Summer Night.”
The panel discussing this all-im­portant
question was introduced by
George Brenneman. They were: Will­ard
Swartley, Ray Miller, David Gar
ber, Ernest Kraybill, and Donald
Mellinger.
These men were given twenty min­utes
for discussion, then the issue
was discussed from the floor. Many
thoughts went through our minds as
High School
Societies Convene
“ This is Your Life” was the Ar-merians’
program of Friday, Sept.
28.
Whose life? Why, Mr. Jay B. Lan­dis,
our sponsor, of course. And what
a life! We were shown pictures of
Jay, enlarged by the projector, when
he was a cute litttle guy with long
curls and from there on up to his
first date at E.M.C.
It seems Jay has always been in­terested
in music and poetry. One of
his most uplifting poems was “ En­tertaining
My Big Sister’s Beau.”
Marvin Showalter recited this for us.
One of his most inspirational songs
was “ A Froggie Would A-Wooing
Go.” Marian Longenecker and Rach­el
Wenger gave us their version of
: it.
Then we saw Jay (alias Irvin
! Heishman) in his college life here at
| E.M.C. and his work in I-W Service
j at Cleveland, Ohio. Jay appeared in
| person as a fitting climax to the pro­gram.
* * * *
High spirits rolled the Philomath-
' ean “ Wagon Wheels West.” We all
felt like cowhands when Nelson Good
and Gene Stoltzfus sang “ Red River
Valley” and “ Home on the Range”
I with Arley Miller strumming the har­mony
on the guitar.
Lowell Herr took us to the west
coast by way of his interesting slides.
| The Smith’s, having deposited their
’ dimes with the proper person, found
a spot on the hay wagon and took
. the long way to the big barn for their
1 Friday night social. “ Our faces
toward the future, Smithsonians w e ,
sing,” broke into the clear air, and j George gave actual facts of the his-
“ Why doesn’t my goose lay as much tory of E.M.C.’s literaries and the
as thy goose?” competed with the others gave pactical suggestions con-jeeps
for audibility. | cerning the pros and cons of a third
At the barn, spectators watched society in relation to our present
girls scramble madly for that one needs. The discussion was lively, but
special, “ he-man” shoe, laughed over pointed.
Harvey’s attempts to pick up cotton A fter the discussion from the au-
(Continued to page 3) ' (Continued to page 3)
College Senior Class Officers
L to R Dale Schumm, George Brenneman, Titus Bender, M a rth a Hertzler, Eunice Kauffm an
Senior Class Elects Officers
The seniors did it again— and for|
the last time! That is, they elected
class officers.
Here are the results: president—
Titus Bender, vice president— George
Brenneman, secretary — Martha
Hertzler, treasurer — Eunice Kauff­man,
and business manager— Dale
Schumm.
President Bender is by no means
an amateur at this job. He capably
chaired the class of ’57 through a
! successful junior year. Titus is from
Delaware but has spent most of his
| time during the last three years in j
Virginia. “ Tidy,” the senior class’s
number one enthusiast, has the know
how to make any party, any night-out,
or any sport top-notch.
President Bender is also a good
musician. Here at E.M.C. he’s been
a member of both the men’s and mix­ed
touring choruses and last year was
assistant director of Collegiate. At
L.M.S. he wrote both the words and
music to the class song.
Then too, “ Tidy” is quite socially
inclined. It’s really not too evident
unless you see him waiting impatient­ly
by the mail boxes or later reading
a six page letter in class.
Congratulations, President Bender.
H IG H S C H O O L S E N IO R S E L E C T
The high school senior class also
elected officers. Their president is
Jim Wenger, vice president— Mervin
Bontrager, secretary— Rachel Weng­er,
treasurer— Janet Yoder, and busi­ness
manager— Ronald Collins.
Best wishes to you, seniors, for a
good year!
C O L L E G E J U N IO R C L A S S O F F IC E R S
President .................. Ernest Kraybil!
Vice President ..... Donald Mallinger
Secretary ................ Naomi Hackman
Treasurer ................ Geneva Emswiler
Business Manager ....... Lowell Herr